Atlas of General Thoracic Surgery

Diagnostic procedures: rigid bronchoscopy; cervical mediatrinoscopy; anterior mediastinotomy; limited thoracotomy for open lung biopsy. Therapeutic procedures: tube thoracostomy; subxiphoid pericardial window; open-window thoracostomy; videothoracoscopy; general techniques; tracheostomy. Thoracic incisions: posterolateral thoracotomy incision; vertical axillary (muscle sparing) thoracotomy incision; median sternotomy incision; bilateral thoracosternotomy. Pulmonary resections: right upper lobectomy; right middle lobectomy; right lower lobectomy; right pneumonectomy; left upper lobectomy; left pneumonectomy; sleeve lobectomy; segmental resection of the lung; mediastinal lymph node dissection; lymph node map; wedge excision of pulmonary nodule. Chest wall procedures: transaxillary first rib resection; repair of pectus excavatum; chest wall resection: superior sulcus tumour. Miscellaneous procedures: pleurectomy and decoration; volume reduction; procedures for emphysema; transcervical thymectomy. Lung transplantation: donor operation; recipient operation. Tracheal resection: cervical tracheal resection. The oesophagus: treatment of Zenker's diverticulum: cricopharyngeal myotomy; oesophageal myotomy; transhiatal esophagectomy; esophagogastric anastomosis; esophagectomy via laparotomy and right thoracotomy; esophagectomy via left thoracotomy; substernal gastric bypass.